Ethics
Hijacking Human Rights
IPN Opinion article
New definitions and interpretations of "human rights" threaten real rights -- and now this argument is being dragged into the debate about climate change
Corruption fuels spread of fake drugs business
IPN Opinion article
A barrage of email spam highlights the dangers from bad drugs as everyone worries about swine flu but the plague of counterfeits is constant threat everywhere and particularly in poor countries. Taxes and corruption make business difficult or impossible for legitimate medicines but open the field to counterfeit dealers who can pay the bribes and make huge profits on their cheap imitations.
